Manufacture of food from bean-vines.



'0. Y. STR/wss. MANUFACTURE 0F FOOD FROM BEAN VINES.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAR.24,1914.

Patented May 25, 1915.

nutren j srarns rarnnr union DENNIS STRAUSS, OF ARTE-SIA, CALIFORNA, SSIGNOR .l() CALIFORNIA RETARDER & FIBRE COMPANY, OF LOS ANGELES, CAIIFOBINIA, .d CORPORA- TION OF CALFORNIA.

nanurac'rnnn or roon anon Brian-yuans; l

minore.

Patented May 25, lOl.

@riginal application led November 11, 19l3, Serial No. 800,269. Divided and this application nled March 2l, 19ML. Serial No.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, Dennis Y. STRAUss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Artesia, in the county of Los Angeles, State .of California, have invented new and useful improvements inthe Manufacture of Food -from Bean-Vines, of which the following is a speciiication.

rlhis invention relates to the manufacture of food from bean vines; and this application is in the nature of a division from my application S. N. 800,269 led November lltb, l9l3. ln this application, l wish to generally set forth my process for treating bean vines (Pmseolus'lg and then to particularly describe and claim thaty portion of my complete process which relates particularly to the extraction and preparation of food values from bean vines. lt will be understood that-in the practical workingv of products, l shall herein explain the peculiar qualities and excellenci'es of said food products.

l have illustrated preferred'forms of api paratus for my process in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure l is a plan view of a plant capable of carryingl out my process, Fig. 2 is an `elevation thereof. J

The bean vines (Phase'olus), are commonly brought from the field in dried condition. Beans are threshed'fromthe vines after the vines and beans have been dried in the field; so that the vines thrown-oil Jby the thresher are necessarily fairly dry.

These dried vines are produced and destroyed q in enormous quantity each year; and it is the ,prime object of my invention to extract valuable products therefrom and to thereby prevent the annual waste of a great amount-of useful material. The first operation ci my process is to boil the vines in a boiling :vat 20 in clear water or in any other suitablediquid. A certain amount of liquid contents of the vines is extracted by the boiling; but the main object of boiling is to loosen the ber and structure of the vines. l next -pass the vines betweensuitable Crushers or crushing rolls 2l, whence they are passed through a vat 22 containing clear Water. From the rinsing vat the vines are then passed through another set ot crushing rolls 23 where a high percentage of the remaining liquid content of the vine is removed. The'liquids removed by crushing run back through the vat Q2, overflowing'into the boiling vat 20; and from the boiling vat the liquids are taken through.v

any suitable distributing system into evaporation vats 24. from the boiling vat 20 may involve a sluiceway 25, or any other suitable means, having 4outlets 26 into the various evaporating vats 24: so' that the evaporating vats may be charged at will- Heat is supplied to the evaporating vats in any desired manner, as by a furnace 27 underneath each vat. When the liquid in any vat has been partially evaporated, ythe remaining thick liquidis absorbedby a suitable absorbent,-

the natureof the absorbent depending upon the use to which the final product is put. Theabsorbent is allowed to remain until the-.free 'moisture' is reduced to about three per cent.,the,remainder being taken up by crystallization.l The caked solid is removedl from the-vat -into suitable conveyers I28 where itis carried to a .Crusher 29, preferably of the rotary type. From this Crusher the lprc'nduct is elevatedby elevator 30 and The distributing system is dischargedinto a pulverizer 31, when itis "y trated ty` 32.1' s.

to be'sjaeked for. shipment as illus Themoist liberi emerging from the -last Set ofcrushing rolls 23r passes to a rotary.

shredder 40 orthe. like, Iand thence into a drierfilof any preferred construction. `I may use vany-"of the -forms of shredder or drier now obtainablev on the market. 'I may v.use a pulping machine instead ofa shredder, putting out the final product in pulp form for manufacture of various kinds.

The resultant fiber, or- 'pulp product emerging from the drier maybe sacked or baledfor commercial use.' r

1'5 The foregoing sets forth my general proc` ess forutilizatiodof bean vvines in which i processI'extra-ct vand use. allof the constituents ofthel vine. i'

l In'the specific process for manufacture ofy A food products, I extract the liquid and 1 soluble content of the vines asv above explained. The boiling has. the eii'ect of loosening the structure. of the vine and dis-l solving .the soluble nutritious organic` con-i stituentS; the crushing operation frees the vines of most of the original moisture and of the liquid absorbed in the: boiling /vat ltogether with the matter ydissolved therein; .All this extracted liquidisbroufght to ether l3 0 in the boiling vat,` whence i't-is .with rawn tothe batteryof` evaporation vets.y Partial .or complete evaporation' of `the water in the liquid takes place in; thelevaporation vats, the extent of said evaporation de. Y .pending upon the 'quality of food. product desired. hus, whenl itis desiredto use the extract -without .absorption in a'. carrier,-

theevaporation may be carried further than when an vabsorbent is ,used. The pure exs' ract. may be used as ood after complete 'eVPIYtionfftofa thickliquid. With less evaporatiompa suitablegf-absorbent carrier, as 4,5, sorbent, 311185,' f be s put into the` vats `in such' quantity/that practicallyall .the liquid'is taken "up`;`:.all .but about three per; cent.,

i l "fvvhich'- istaken,l up by crystallization.. The. v cakethus-.fo'rmed is removed, crushed and 5.0; ulverized `as'explained,being then ready or market and use.

' ,The liquid content' :of the `bean vine'sis very nutritious'. It hasbeen common `prac tice to feed the Whole vines in 'small quanti- "1 5" -to stock; but the presence .of thelarge` amount of strongber'ha's limited its use as food toa propsortion'of the total Afood required -byv anima ber is removedand used, and .thenutritious l constituents' are extractedand prepared in such form that stock derive :the fullfbeneiit Ifhave. 4said thattheextract may beffed lllleaornwnl'nan absorbent.. In pure crm, and-pressed' into; cakes with.

.I addition of condiments, avors or otherlsuit-l seolus.

said water and fourth evaporating the rinsration of food from bean vines comprising l .vine structure and to dissolve and remove a portion ofthe nutritious organic constitu ents thereof, second assing said boiled vines through crushing roi) lporation'of the viale/rf to "or after` By .my process .the

v 'able material, it becomes excellent base for' moves the obstacle (the ber) preventing the use of thesevery nutritious constituents. It will be understood that the foremost ex- Acellency of my process-and food produc-t liesI in thefactthat it utilizes a farm 4product;

heretofore lconsidered, waste. Annually enormous quantities of bean vines -are burned or otherwise destroyed; my process turns this enormous annual waste and loss into a corresponding saving and gain. My process may use any of the bean vines, such as are generally'known as Lima beans, navy beans, lield beans, string beans, and all others, belonging chieiiy to the genus Pha- 1. The herein described process for obtaining food from bean vinesv consisting in vextracting a portion of the/.nutritious orl ganic constituents thereof b -boiling in Weiten-further extracting an a ditional portion of said constituents/by crushing and finally 'evaporating the boiling liquid vand thelast named extracted portion together.

process vfor making food from bean vines consisting in irst boiling. the vines in water, second crushing the vines allowing the liquid contained 'herein to run-back into a water, third rinsi g the boiled vines in ing Water and the boiled water to ether.

3. `The herein described processI or prepa;-

irst Vboiling the vines in water to loosen the 1ers, said rollers further extracting the remaining liquid organic constituents left in the vine, and then adding the'boiling liquid and said extracted liquid together and evaporating the same.

4. The herein describedV precess for ob- 'taining food from vines, vwhich consists in extracting 'afportio'n of the nutritiousor- 115 A ganic constituents thereof from said vines by boiling the same in water, then extracting v an additional portion of said constituents by crushing the vines then rinsing said vines in Water and then adding the bollin liquid, to the said extracted liquid and t e rinsing water together and evaporating the same. `5. The; herein descrlbed rocess. for obtaining food from vines, w 'ch consists in extracting a portionjof the nutritious oranijc-constituents thereof, from said vines yboilin the same in water, then removing an adde portion of said constituents, by crushing the vines to extract a liquid there from, then 'adding the boiling liquid to the 130 extracted liquid and .evaporating the same, and then adding a base of absorbent edible material.

6. A food of the character described com- 5 prising abase of absorbent edible material, which is impregnated with the nutritious water extracted constituents of bean. vines.

mtime y hn witness that claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed by name this 13th day of March 1914.

I @EMS Y. STRAUSS.

Witnesses:

' Tmofrur Manowar,

' H. B. Mums., 

